{"id":2860,"date":"2016-02-03T00:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/health.glutenfreeworks.com\/2013\/03\/13\/fat-2\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:38:35","slug":"fat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/fat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat: definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The most concentrated stored energy in food. Each gram (g) supplies 9 calories of energy. Fats are digested to fatty acid and glycerol molecules and serve as a carrier to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K into the body from the gut. Fatty acids are building blocks of membranes and play a key role in numerous body functions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Two fatty acids that the body requires, but cannot make, are omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids. These two PUFAs oppose and balance each other in vital body functions such as blood clotting and inflammation. They make up 30% of eye retina and 15% of brain structure and are required for their function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Omega-3 fatty acids are linolenic acid, derived from plants, and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosa-hexaenoic acid (DHA), which are derived mainly from fish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0In the body, excess calories are stored as fat, providing a reserve supply of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most concentrated stored energy in food. Each gram (g) supplies 9 calories of energy. Fats are digested to fatty acid and glycerol molecules and serve as a carrier to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K into the body from the gut. Fatty acids are building blocks of membranes and play a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[774],"tags":[2095],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionary","tag-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16439,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/16439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreeworks.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}